Diego Luna Quotes

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

I always used to tell others that 'we should make films to make the people happy.'

The purpose of making a successful film is to blend entertainment with social content.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.